Quotes About Insight

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

Education is understanding relationships.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.